PART II.-CHAPTER XIX. 



SEATES. 

 [THIS chapter comprises only a few scattered notes ; of which the following are specimens. J. B.] 



I TAKE Merton to be the best seated for healthy aire, &c., and sports, of any place in this county. 

 The soile is gravelly and pebbly. 



Ivy Church, adjoining to Clarendon Parke, a grove of elms, and prospect over the city of Salisbury 

 and the adjacent parts. The right honorable Mary, Countess of Pembroke, much delighted in this 

 place. 



At Longford is a noble house that was built by Lord Georges, who married a Swedish lady. 

 [See before, p. 102. Sir Thomas Gorges was the second husband of Helena dowager Marchioness 

 of Northampton, daughter of Wolfgang Snachenburg, of Sweden : see Hoare's Modern Wiltshire, 

 Hundred of Cawden, p. 31. J. B.] 



Little-coat, in the parish of Rammysbury, is a very great house. It was Sir Thomas Dayrell's, 

 who was tryed for his life for burning a child, being accessory. It is now Sir Jo. Popham's, Lord 

 Chief Justice. [The murder here alluded to is said to have been committed in Littlecot-house. 

 The strange and mysterious story connected with it is recorded in a note to Scott's poem of "llokeby," 

 and also in the account of Wiltshire, in the Beauties of England. J. B.] 



Longleat, the dwelling place of the Thynnes, a very fair, neat, elegant house, in a foul soile. It 

 is true Roman architecture, adorned on the outside with three orders of pillars, Dorique, lonique, 

 and Corinthian. 



Tocknam [Tottenham] Parke, a seate of the Duke of Somerset, is a most parkely ground, and a 

 romancey place. Severall walkes of trees planted of great length. Here is a new complete pile of 

 good architecture. It is in the parish of Great Bedwin. [The domain comprises the whole extent 

 of Savernake Forest. J. B.] 



Wardour Castle, the seate of the Lord Arundell, was kept by Col. Ludlow : a part of it was 

 blown up by Sir F. Dodington in 1644 or 1645. Here was a red-deer parke and a fallow-deer 

 parke. [Some of the ruins of the old castle still remain. The present mansion, belonging to the 

 Arundell family of Wardour, was erected about seventy years ago. J. B.] 



Knighton Wood, the Earle of Pembroke's, is an exceeding pleasant place, both for the variety of 

 high wood and lawnes, as well as deer, as also the prospect over the New Forest to the sea, and the 

 whole length of the Isle of Wight. It is a desk-like elevation, and faces the south, and in my conceit 

 it would be the noblest situation for a grand building that this countrey doth afford. 



